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In Which Our Shower Slowly Fills Back In
Dec. 6th, 2017 09:21 amDay two of our shower work ended yesterday with "concrete board" on all the walls, apparently the right sort of surface to build on (and the legally required one), not like what our contractor did five years ago.
Also yesterday, Kimberly went out to the tile store with our contractor to look at trim. We'd initially decided against trim, because of our previous contractor's inability to lay it in right, but this contractor proactively asked us about trim and also told us how the old contractor had used it incorrectly. So we changed our mind; Kimberly found one that she quite likes and was very pleased by having gone out to the tile store with our contractor to find it.
Current word is that we might be done on Friday, which would be day five, but the work might leak over to Monday. It'll be a question of when the wall next to the tub gets reconstructed.
Whenever we have work like this done on the house, the most annoying factor is that I need to lock the cats back in my office. This is because they're inside cats who can't be entirely trusted to stay inside, and workmen are usually in and out all day.
So I end up with cats around me all day who are sometimes overly friendly because I'm their only available human and sometimes very annoyed. Monday they mostly hovered by the door, yesterday they mostly crashed out on the love seat.
I don't think we've ever before had work like this done in the cold months, which reminded me of another deficit: because our house is heated by a single floor radiator, when you close off a room in the winter, it gets cold.
So I'm locked up this week in a chilly office with insane cats.
On the bright side, their cat tree is up in my office right now, because it's been replaced in the living room by a Christmas tree. So I tend to have one content cat in my office at a time. (Our six-foot-tall cat tree only seats one cat at a time; if there are two, there is waving of claws involved.)
And, I feel quite locked up this week, because not only am I stuck back in the office, but I'm also our main contact for our contractor during the day, because Kimberly is stuck upstairs with her broken foot.
Which means I'm mostly not leaving the house during the day.
And oh, the house is a mess right now, mainly because plaster dust got everywhere on the day of demolition. It just doesn't seem worthwhile cleaning it up yet with work still ongoing.
And our downstairs bathroom feels like a construction site right now in the evenings, when our contractor is gone. That's due to the tools lying about, the protective butcher paper on the floor, and the fact that the bathroom is being kept closed, to keep out inquisitive cats, and so is also chilly.
But work is progressing, and our guy really seems to know what he's doing, so we've got our fingers crossed that it'll come out beautifully this time, like we'd hoped last time, entirely separate from the fact that we hope it'll come out non-leaking this time.
Also yesterday, Kimberly went out to the tile store with our contractor to look at trim. We'd initially decided against trim, because of our previous contractor's inability to lay it in right, but this contractor proactively asked us about trim and also told us how the old contractor had used it incorrectly. So we changed our mind; Kimberly found one that she quite likes and was very pleased by having gone out to the tile store with our contractor to find it.
Current word is that we might be done on Friday, which would be day five, but the work might leak over to Monday. It'll be a question of when the wall next to the tub gets reconstructed.
Whenever we have work like this done on the house, the most annoying factor is that I need to lock the cats back in my office. This is because they're inside cats who can't be entirely trusted to stay inside, and workmen are usually in and out all day.
So I end up with cats around me all day who are sometimes overly friendly because I'm their only available human and sometimes very annoyed. Monday they mostly hovered by the door, yesterday they mostly crashed out on the love seat.
I don't think we've ever before had work like this done in the cold months, which reminded me of another deficit: because our house is heated by a single floor radiator, when you close off a room in the winter, it gets cold.
So I'm locked up this week in a chilly office with insane cats.
On the bright side, their cat tree is up in my office right now, because it's been replaced in the living room by a Christmas tree. So I tend to have one content cat in my office at a time. (Our six-foot-tall cat tree only seats one cat at a time; if there are two, there is waving of claws involved.)
And, I feel quite locked up this week, because not only am I stuck back in the office, but I'm also our main contact for our contractor during the day, because Kimberly is stuck upstairs with her broken foot.
Which means I'm mostly not leaving the house during the day.
And oh, the house is a mess right now, mainly because plaster dust got everywhere on the day of demolition. It just doesn't seem worthwhile cleaning it up yet with work still ongoing.
And our downstairs bathroom feels like a construction site right now in the evenings, when our contractor is gone. That's due to the tools lying about, the protective butcher paper on the floor, and the fact that the bathroom is being kept closed, to keep out inquisitive cats, and so is also chilly.
But work is progressing, and our guy really seems to know what he's doing, so we've got our fingers crossed that it'll come out beautifully this time, like we'd hoped last time, entirely separate from the fact that we hope it'll come out non-leaking this time.